Rowdy Gifford was raised on a farm in Kansas. After graduating high school, he volunteered to go to Vietnam. His hobbies are riding motorcycles and volunteering to help the homeless. He suffers from PTSD but has found there are tools and ways to recover.  He wrote a biography entitled, “The Man With 17 Names.” In the last 20 years, Rowdy became a master in his trade and a city plumbing inspector. At the time of this show, he was working on his second book about how he lives and succeeds while dealing with PTSD.